Meanwhile, as Nicholas comes closer to unveiling the real conspirator, the men who wish to silence him are multiplying. When one of Shakespeare's boy actors goes missing, and Bianca discovers a disturbing painting that could be a clue, she embarks on her own investigation. As Nicholas races against time to save his father, he and his wife Bianca are drawn into the centre of a treacherous plot against the queen. In the court's desperate bid to silence it, an innocent man is found guilty - the father of Nicholas Shelby, physician and spy. And in London's dark alleyways, a conspiracy is brewing. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos.
Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England.
Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. WINNER-Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy-concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." -Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter Summary "A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." -Marlon James Sorry, the publisher does not allow users to read this book from the country from which you are connecting.
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